From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans - Hardcover

Revised and updated for a new generation of readers, the definitive African American history retraces the origins of this community in Africa and the slave trade that brought these people to the West Indies, Latin America, and North America. Reissue.

John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University, and was for seven years Professor of Legal History at Duke University Law School. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Award. He is the author of many books on African-American history, including The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first Century (1993) and Race and History (1989).

Alfred A. Moss, Jr., is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The American Negro Academy: Voice of the Talented Tenth (1981) and of numerous articles, coauthor of Looking at History (1986), and coeditor of The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin (1991).